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Subject: Any idea on how long the ODST campaign is?

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Any idea on how long the ODST campaign is?

I searched the forum, didn't find anything relevant to this exact question.
Forgive me if it has been addressed before.

I do remember reading somewhere that the campaign was between 3 to 5 hours but I find that extremely hard to believe considering just two or three Halo 3 campaign levels would be the equivalent to that.

I understand that the Campaign is supposed to be shorter than Halo 3's so does anyone have any information or a reasonable estimate on the game's length?

I would imagine it would be around 8 to 10 hours in length, any other guess's?

  • 06.02.2009 12:46 AM PDT

Maroon 5 is awesome. Deal with it.

6 hours is my guess. Add on Firefight mode as well and you w ill have hours more playtime

[Edited on 06.02.2009 12:48 AM PDT]

  • 06.02.2009 12:47 AM PDT

Around 6.5 to 7 hours. But remember that the length depends on the difficulty. I haven't played it yet, but I heard legendary difficulty is pretty brutal this time around. Like, really brutal.

  • 06.02.2009 12:51 AM PDT

I would say that that is a very very conservative estimate, probably meant for easy mode. I mean, if you look at Halo:CE, my friend James and I beat it in 2 hours in 11 minutes. So if me and 4 of my friends strategize and run through the entire campaign of ODST on easy in 45 minutes, does that make it 45 minutes long?

  • 06.02.2009 1:16 AM PDT

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How about you play it on Legendary in case you want a bit longer campaign?

  • 06.02.2009 1:19 AM PDT

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Posted by: Kurtrill
I thought I heard somewhere before that it was 3-4 hours, being one of the shortest Halo campaigns to date, though I dont think it was a reliable source.

with Multiplayer, gameplay is infinite.


Bungie was the one who said it'd be about 4 hours long. But that's probably why Firefight was added as well as the fact that the campaign is sort of freeroam you could spend time driving around, etc in the hub.

And I agree completely with multiplayer = infinite <until the disc breaks XD>

Also I wonder if Bungie could make it so that ODST utilizes both disc and HDD so that disc users keep quick load speeds but so that HDD users can download the game without it being slowed down.

  • 06.02.2009 1:25 AM PDT

Taking into account that Halo 3's campaign was about 6 hours.

I would say this one would struggle to be more then 2 hours for anyone who is actually good.

  • 06.02.2009 1:32 AM PDT

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Posted by: Pahat Pojat
How about you play it on Legendary in case you want a bit longer campaign?


I did with Halo 3.
Infact I played it several times through.

Legendary easily made a level 2 to 3 times longer than usual.
Especially doing it Solo.

  • 06.02.2009 1:25 PM PDT